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Variety Sonny and Cher are gone, but Donny and Marie will be back on ABC. This year Sister Osmond will forsake her clean-teen look for boots, bobbed hair and slinky high fashion. Joining the song-and-skit brigade this season: Richard Pryor, who will bring his jive, streetwise humor to a new NBC variety series, and Redd Foxx, who will sanitize his stand-up act for his own weekly show...
...Meandering through Harvard Square late at night, I keep a sharp eye out for martians ordering yogurt cones at Belgian Fudge, or hirsute werewolves hailing taxis in front of the Coop. Back at my room, I turn on the radio to catch any late news flashes--did Marie Osmond find a new pimple on her chin? Why has Farrah Fawcett stopped eating bananas? But unfortunately, the radio coverage isn't satisfying, so I head for bed and sleep fitfully, anxious to read the morning news and rediscover the fantastic world of events...
...while I am studying my Economics or sitting in the cafeteria eating a Jimmy-Carter-and-jelly sandwich, there are people dying and fighting giant cockroaches in Egypt and kicking strange monsters out of upstairs attics. Barbara Walters may get to meet them, and I suppose even Marie Osmond gets to meet them. But the rest of us never get to meet them, and so we may spend our lives feeling that they known something...
...actor's name is John Travolta. He is 22, and seems to be the successor to David Cassidy and Donnie and Marie Osmond in the hearts of the eleven-to 15-year-old crowd. Taking Don Murray's old role in Bus Stop is just a passing thing for him. Travolta is best known as Vinnie Barbarino, the tough, macho "Sweathog" in ABC's hit series Welcome Back, Kotter. The show is an updated version of Happy Days, a genial exercise in instant nostalgia, and Vinnie Barbarino is barely distinguishable from Arthur Fonzarelli, a.k.a. the Fonz...
...owner of an Atlanta chimney-and furnace-cleaning firm, Foster indeed was a fan. "He wasn't authorized by Turner to do anything except call me," laughs Osmond, "but he got carried away and made the deal." Turner blithely went along with it. And Ed Barrow turned over in his grave...